Word: argumentatively
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...legal battles seem far from finished. Middlebrooks said he expects Republicans to appeal his decision allowing the hand recount. But he agreed with the Gore team's argument that Bush's suit was a matter for state rather than federal courts...
...getting rejected by the courts works pretty well for the Bush p.r. effort. Bush surrogate-in-chief James Baker emerged at 4:20 Wednesday afternoon to take back the "speedy end to all this" mantle from the Democrats, and made the rather logical argument that if Democrats wanted to hand-count those ballots so badly - in selected Democratic-leaning counties, mind you - why haven't they started yet? The Bushies tried to stop them once in federal court, and lost. They tried to stop them in the state Supreme Court, and lost. Volusia County briskly hand-counted all its votes...
...also demythologized it. Even the election-night debacle may have, perversely, done a public service by undermining the credibility of exit polls and electoral projections. Media critics have long argued that networks should not call races until all polls have closed to avoid affecting turnout. It's a moot argument: information will out, not least because people want it. Tuesday afternoon, web surfers overwhelmed the Drudge Report, where Matt Drudge had posted exit-poll results...
Rather than accepting the argument that her headwear posed a threat to secularism, Kavakci said she views secularism as a tool for oppression, used by a government for which "violation of human rights is its modus operendi...
Republicans, in a ultimately successful argument, told voters the state could afford the cuts, given the current surpluses the state was running. They also argued such cuts had been promised by the legislature in the early 1990s...